Belkis Gonzalez is serving probation for unlawfully running a Miramar abortion clinic, and now faces new criminal charges and a lawsuit over a botched abortion at her Hialeah Clinic. But the lawyer for a Broward County woman suing Gonzalez over the abortion says her latest criminal charges don’t go far enough.

Tom Pennekamp, Sycloria Williams’ Miami lawyer, thinks the case “is clearly a homicide.”

Williams sought an abortion in 2006 from Gonzalez’s clinic, but she says her 23-week-old infant was instead born alive and thrown out in a plastic bag. The wrongful-death civil lawsuit, filed in January, accuses Gonzalez, 43, of Miramar, of attending to the surprise live birth before a doctor could arrive.

The suit claims Gonzalez knocked the infant off a chair where Williams had given birth, scooping the baby and afterbirth into the red bag.

On Tuesday, Gonzalez was charged with unauthorized practice of medicine resulting in injury and tampering with evidence, both felonies, said Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.

Gonzalez denies the accusations. She will answer to charges at a March 24 arraignment.

After Gonzalez’s arrest Tuesday, she posted $50,000 bond and was released from a Miami-Dade jail. If convicted of unauthorized practice of medicine, Gonzalez would face at least a year in prison and up to 15 years. The other charge, tampering with evidence, carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.

An autopsy indicated a live birth, according to the state Department of Health. The cause of death was listed as extreme prematurity and the manner of death was classified as natural.

Griffith said investigators were unable to definitively determine the cause of death – and Gonzalez’s role in it.

The technical aspects of the case led to the two-year lapse between the botched abortion and Gonzalez’s arrest, Griffith said.

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The charges

Belkis Gonzalez is charged with unauthorized practice of medicine resulting in injury and tampering with evidence, both felonies.

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